Miceli, Thomas J.; Mungan, Murat C. - 2021
act at all, enacting a law and enforcing it, and enacting a law and not enforcing it. When enactment is costly and a … fraction of the population reflexively complies with the law once its enactment has been announced (reflecting an expressive … function of law), all three policies may be optimal, depending on the severity of the harm from the act and the fraction of …